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“Please deactivate all electronic devices as we make our final descent into Seattle, Washington,” came the female flight attendant’s voice over the jet’s public address system. Teena Fields, caught in mid-sentence in her latest dissertation on World War II battles in the Pacific Theater, sighed in disappointment. She had hoped to finish that section before…
The massive flagship burned in a decaying orbit over a green-blue gas giant, making a slow death spiral toward the crushing gravity below. Vard Bokren had imagined an end much like this. He just hadn’t expected it to come now at the hands of the little temperamental lizards that the late Zar’s loyalists had scraped…
“He’s awake,” the Llivori nurse said, giving the human a curious look. Whiskers flared from her snout as she considered him with beady black eyes. “You don’t look like family.” “Oh, I’m not, but I am looking into this incident,” the stranger replied with an easy smile. He had curly black hair and stood about…
Games like OtherSpace aren’t for everybody. They require the sort of person who: Likes to read. Likes to write. Likes to experiment with cause and effect. Likes to fly by the seat of their pants, crafting dialogue in real-time. It’s like a LARP – live action role-playing game – in that participants assume roles that…